Process of separating heterogeneous substances and detinning scrap.



and State of Pennsylvania, have invented following is a which is softer, weaker, or less cohesive, by

CHARLES J. REED, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PROCESS GE SEPARATING HETERGGENEOUS SUBSTANCES AND DETINNING SCRAP.

ll'llhelllll. Specification of Letters Patented Sept. 27, infill.

Ho Drawing. Application filed June 19, 1909, Serial No. 503,166. Renewed February 28, 1910. Serial No.

as for example tin from tmned iron, it is preferably finely divided, so as to enter all the depressions and crevices of the scrap and rub oil all of the tin. The amount of the magnetic substance added to the charge is also variable, proportions of one of the magnetic material to oue tenth of the mixed substances, also one of the magnetic material to ten or more of the mixed substances having been used. In general, an amount equal to or greater than the volume of the mixed substances is desirable.

The apparatus used in carrying out the first step of the process may be a movable vessel or agitator of any convenient size and shape, for example a rumble or rotating cylinder, or a shaking pan. The charge of mixed substances and the magnetic material may either be preheated, or may be continuously heated in the agitator, preferably in the case of metals tothe point of incipient fusion of the softer metal.

, The apparatus preferred for carrying out the second and third steps of the process comprises a screen for mechanically separating the unpulverizcd and pulverized substances, and a magnetic separator for removing the added magnetic material. When hematite is used as a pulverizing material, itis heated to render it magnetic, before or at the time ofits removal.

The following are specific illustrations of the process:

l. A body of tin scrap is mixed with an equal volume of finely-divided magnetite and the mixture is charged into a rumble, wherein it is subjected to heat and agitation until the tin is entirely removed from the iron. The initial product To all wiimn- "it may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLES J. Reno, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia certain new and useful improvements in Processes of Separating Heterogeneous Sui stances and Detinning Scrap, of which the specification.

This process is applicable to the separation of the constituents of mixtures, as for example mixtures of non-adheringparticles of scrap metals or alloys, such as chips, turnings, borings or filings of copper or brass mixed with babbitt, lead or tin; or metal scrap coated with an adhering metahsuch as tinned iron or copper, galvanized iron, metal carrying solder, or electroplated metal; or non-metallic mixtures such as cloth and rubber.

The process comprises three steps, to wit:-first, pulverizing the component agitating a charge containing the mixed substances and a subdivided magnetic substance; second, mechanically separating the pulverized and unp-ulverized substances; and third, magnetically separating the magnetic substance. .lne order of the second and third steps is variable with difierent materials. r

In carrying out the first step in the separation of metals, advantage is taken of the fact. that the metallic component to be pulverized is usually the more fusible one, and that it may be rendered more soft, weak and friable by heating the charge, preferably to about the melting point of this metal.

The subdivided magnetic substance used to abrade and pulverize the soft. and Weak substance may either be one which is initially magnetic, for example pieces of iron, nickel, cobalt, or magnetic iron oxid, or one which becomes magnetic upon heating, for example hematite or siderite. it is preferably, though not necessarily, a substance Which-is inert toward and will not react or combine with nor melt and coat either of the mixed substances. it not only acts to pulverize the less cohesive component, but also to sepa ate and prevent the reunion of the particles of pulverized substance. The lineor extent of subdivision of the magnetic substance is variable with different mate rials. l l hen used to remove coating metals,

is then thrown upon a screen, which separates the pic es of det inned iron from the powdered tin and magnetite. The magnetite is then removed from the tin by a n'iagnetic separator.

2. To a mixture of brass and babbitt is added twice its volume of subdivided mag nctite. The mixture is heated and agitated in a rumble until the babbitt is pulverized. 'lhe magnetite is then magnetically removed from the brass and powdered babbitt, and the brass is finally separated from the babbitt by a screen.

The word metals, as used in the claims, is intended to include alloys; the term mag netic material, to include substances which .are either initially paramagnetic or become so when heated; and the term mixed -metals is intended to incluc e metals which are either adherent or non-adherent I claim: 7

1. The process oi separating mixed heter ogeneous substances, which consists in pulverizing one substance by a subdivided magnetic material, and then magnetically removing the magnetic mater al and separating the pulverized from the unpulverized material.

2. The process of separating mixed heterogeneous substances, which consists in pulverizing one substance by heat and a subdivided magnetic material,- and then magnetically removing the magnetic material and separating the pulverized from the unpulverized material,

3. The process of separating mixed metals, which consists in p'ulverizing one metal by a subdivided magnetic material, and then magnetically removing the magnetic material and separating the pulverized metal from the unpulverized metal.

The process of separating mixed metals, Which consists in pulverizing one metal by heat and a subdivided magnetic material, and then magnetically removing the mag netic material and separating the pulverized metal from unpulvcrized metal.

5. The process of se mrating mixed metals, which consists in pulverizing one metal by agitating charge containing the mixed metals and an added magnetic material, and then mecl'ianically separating the pulverized and unpulverized metals and magnetically removing the magnetic material.

6. The process of separating mixed metals, which consists in pulverizing one metal by heating and agitating a charge containing the mixed metals and an added magnetic material, and then mechanically separating the pulverized and unpulverized metals and magnetically removing the magnetic material.

'7. The process of detinning tinned iron scrap, which consists in mixing the scrap with a finely-divided magnetic material, heating and agitating the mixture, mechanically separating the pulverized tin and detinned iron, and magnetically removing the magnetic material.

8. The process of detinning tinned iron scrap, which. consists in mixing the scrap with finely-divided magnetite, heating and agitating the mixture, screening the detinned iron from the pulverized tin and magnetite, and magnetically removing the magnetite from the tin.

in testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES REED.

\Vitnesses:

ELLEN hi. Rrr'ran, lLiARY A. IMiCCONEGHY. 

